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1 | Church Fathers? Part V | Mark 7:9 | EdB | 243670 | ||
Doc The word infallible conveys the idea of being not open to discussion as in, this is the doctrine of the denomination. Do you consider the Canon of scripture infallible? At first blush you would probably I certainly do not. Yet I think is it safe to say you think it is so accurate you do not question it. No Pentecostals do not hold to infallibly but yet we do believe that our doctrinal truths are certain as stated by church leadership. To doubt those statements of beliefs would put us outside the beliefs of Pentecostalism and therefore no longer Pentecostal. I believe the same holds true for you. You hold the tenets of faith of Calvinism as truths therefore defining you as a Calvinist. If however you if denied Calvin’s tulips you could no longer be considered a Calvinist. So you have to believe those concepts are true. Are they infallible? No but in effect that is how you treat them do you not? Here is a quote from http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm which makes the point perhaps better. “Without infallibility there could be no finality regarding any one of the great truths which have been identified historically with the very essence of Christianity; and it is only with those who believe in historical Christianity that the question need be discussed. Take, for instance, the mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation. If the early Church was not infallible in her definitions regarding these truths, what compelling reason can be alleged today against the right to revive the Sabellian, or the Arian, or the Macedonian, or the Apollinarian, or the Nestorian, or the Eutychian controversies, and to defend some interpretation of these mysteries which the Church has condemned as heretical?†|
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2 | Church Fathers? Part V | Mark 7:9 | EdB | 243672 | ||
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